2017-12-13T10:56:30.000000000-05:00
Under Armour is the worst performing stock in the S&amp;P 500 for 2017. The company is hopeful that it can get back on track next year but analysts are still skeptical. Competition from Adidas and Nike continues to be fierce.

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Reuters - Money

2017-12-13T19:19:14.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - When the U.S. Federal Reserve raises interest rates, as it did on Wednesday by a quarter-percentage point, the first pinch consumers usually feel is higher interest rates on...

2017-12-13T14:23:29.000000000-05:00
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Graduate student Mollie Marr is worried that the U.S. tax overhaul working its way through Congress will force her and many other fellow students to give up on their educations.

2017-12-13T13:34:14.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - DoubleLine CEO Jeffrey Gundlach said on Wednesday that his best investment idea for the new year is commodities, against the backdrop of increasing global economic activity and...

2017-12-12T17:04:54.000000000-05:00
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The funded status of 100 of the largest U.S. public pension plans grew by $36 billion in third quarter of 2017, boosted by strong equity returns, according to a report released...

2017-12-12T15:17:40.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - Canadian asset manager Desjardins Group is partnering with five credit union centrals and insurer Cumis Group to form a wealth management firm with about C$55 billion ($42.74 billion) in...

2017-12-12T09:02:29.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - American International Group Inc has ramped up its analysis for insuring against cyber attacks, using a system that scores a company's risk of having a breach along with safeguards it...

2017-12-12T07:36:01.000000000-05:00
BOSTON (Reuters) - Vanguard Group Inc is moving to use blockchain to simplify how it updates index data underlying mutual funds, executives said on Monday, an important sign of confidence for the new...

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Business Insider

2017-12-13T20:07:00.000000000-05:00
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Nearly every global bank is experimenting with blockchain technology as they try to unleash the cost savings and operational efficiencies it p...

2017-12-13T20:00:20.000000000-05:00
The Crypto Company, a cryptocurrency firm building out the capital markets for bitcoin, is splitting its stock after an eye-popping month.
The company's stock, which trades in the OTC market, soared more than 1,600% to $312 a share since December 1.
Cryptomania is sweeping Wall Street and it is...

2017-12-13T19:01:00.000000000-05:00
The Treasury Select Committee has called for a transition deal which essentially keeps the UK within the EU for a fixed period after it formally leaves in March 2019
The committee said such a deal would speed up negotiations and allow the government to focus on securing a future trade deal with t...

2017-12-13T18:50:11.000000000-05:00
Kartik Joshi, a partner at hedge fund Tourbillon Capital, has left.
The New York firm has struggled this year.
Tourbillon's flagship fund is down -11.6% this year through November.
Kartik Joshi, a partner at New York-based Tourbillon Capital, has left the fund, people with knowledge of the ma...

2017-12-13T18:49:22.000000000-05:00
Over the course of 2017, Uber went from one of the most admired companies in Silicon Valley to one of the most vilified.
Many executive heads have rolled including former CEO Travis Kalanick.
But investors also have responsibility in how a company is run, one famous VC and former Facebook exec ar...

2017-12-13T18:34:47.000000000-05:00
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey wore a strange pair of black sandals during a talk with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein.
In doing so, he broke one of the cardinal rules of dressing professionally.
Jack Dorsey is known for his style prowess, but not even he can pull off flip-flop-style sa...

2017-12-13T18:13:41.000000000-05:00
The FCC will vote Thursday to repeal the net neutrality rules it put in place in 2015.
The repeal will likely mean higher prices and fewer choices for consumers.
The repeal is good news for large telecommunications and internet companies.
In a move that could fundamentally reshape the internet ...

2017-12-13T17:46:00.000000000-05:00
A penthouse in Miami is selling for the equivalent of about $547,000.
The seller is only accepting bitcoin.
Bitcoin has surged more than 1,500% this year.
For 33 bitcoins, this "spectacular" penthouse in Miami could be yours.
That was the equivalent of about $547,000 on Wednesday.
The one...

2017-12-13T17:28:23.000000000-05:00
• Christmas tree vendors always pop up around New York City after Thanksgiving.
• The Gilmartins are an Alaskan family who spend the holidays selling evergreens in Manhattan, and have for 21 years.
• They sleep in a camper and shower at a nearby hostel, taking 12-hour shifts to sell trees around ...

2017-12-13T17:11:00.000000000-05:00
Finisar, the maker of specialty chips for the Apple iPhone X and AirPods, is trading up 26.84% at $24.43 a share after Apple awarded the company a $390 million order*.
Finisar is hoping to reopen a manufacturing plant in Texas with the help of Apple's investment. The plant is expected to create 5...

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MarketWatch

2017-12-13T21:44:26.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:44:26.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:20:03.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:19:27.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:18:04.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:17:28.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:01:07.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:01:07.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:01:07.000000000+00:00
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2017-12-13T21:00:20.000000000+00:00
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WSJ

2017-12-13T20:17:21.000000000-05:00
Apple is awarding $390 million to Finisar, which makes the key components in the types of 3-D sensing arrays that Apple uses in its iPhone X to scan the user’s face.

2017-12-13T17:45:37.000000000-05:00
With viewers turning to streaming video, sports has come to dominate traditional TV. That’s one reason behind a potential 21st Century Fox-Disney deal. And it’s one reason why regulators could frown on such an agreement.

2017-12-13T16:39:16.000000000-05:00
The biggest shock about the Federal Reserve this year is it got its prediction of interest-rate increases right. The danger for investors in 2018 is the Fed will get it wrong and rates will end up higher than expected.

2017-12-13T13:01:53.000000000-05:00
Investors are flinging cash at The Crypto Company because bitcoin is going up. At its peak on Monday, Crypto was worth more than a quarter of the companies in the S&amp;P 500.

2017-12-13T12:35:42.000000000-05:00
More heads need to roll if Steinhoff International is to regain credibility after its accounting scandal. The situation can’t be resolved by the regime that failed to spot it.

2017-12-13T06:48:15.000000000-05:00
“Old economy” stocks are booming this year in China, which has sucked cash out of the tech- and consumer-focused Shenzhen index. Now looks like a good time to get in before this trade reverses.

2017-12-13T18:12:24.000000000-05:00
The Latest on the Republican tax overhaul (all times local): 6 p.m. Congressional aides say negotiators have removed several controversial provisions from sweeping tax legislation, including one that would ...

2017-12-13T17:25:45.000000000-05:00
Canada's decision to make it harder for Boeing Co (BA.N) to win a major jet order hands rival plane maker Lockheed Martin Corp (LMT.N) an advantage in capturing the contract, defence experts said on Wednesday. Ottawa on Tuesday scrapped plans to buy 18 Boeing Super Hornets and made clear the com...

2017-12-13T15:52:06.000000000-05:00
During a White House press conference, President Donald Trump told reporters that the IRS confirmed people will see lower tax rates by February if the Republicans pass tax reform by Christmas.

2017-12-13T15:38:48.000000000-05:00
Republican Senator Marco Rubio is facing a choice of whether his vote will match his tweets and become a roadblock to major tax legislation that his party leaders are rushing toward a final vote.

2017-12-13T14:29:52.000000000-05:00
The three major U.S. stock indexes were higher on Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised U.S. interest rates by a quarter percentage point, as anticipated, but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term acceleration in U.S. economic g...

2017-12-13T14:05:05.000000000-05:00
Reports that Teva Pharmaceutical Industries is planning a restructuring involving mass layoffs in Israel sparked calls on Wednesday for a half-day general strike to be held in protest. The plan includes closing Teva's research and development centre in the coastal city of Netanya, selling it...

2017-12-13T13:41:50.000000000-05:00
The tax cuts Congress is likely to pass by the end of the year will benefit many Americans, harm some and leave others unaffected. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Republicans across the country will benefit more from the cuts than Democrats or Independents, according to a new Yahoo Finance analysi...

2017-12-13T13:31:00.000000000-05:00
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote December 14 on a new rule that would reverse net-neutrality regulations adopted in 2015. Net neutrality means internet service providers (ISPs) cannot block, slow, or provide preferential treatment to particular sites and services. The new r...

2017-12-13T11:54:52.000000000-05:00
Bombardier Inc., a crown jewel of Canadian manufacturing, is billing itself as a major U.S. employer in a bitter trade fight with Boeing Co. that has profits, diplomatic ties and the future of a fledgling ...

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The Economist

2017-12-07T15:57:42.000000000+00:00
MCDONALD’S drew ridicule in China when it changed its registered name there to Jingongmen, or “Golden Arches”, in October, after it was sold to a Chinese consortium. Some on Weibo, a microblogging site, thought it sounded old-fashioned and awkward, others that it had connotations of furniture. Th...

2017-12-07T15:57:42.000000000+00:00
A BOA constrictor swallowing capitalism. A cyclone dragging the economy into its vortex. If you look back at how people described Walmart a decade ago, it is eerily similar to how Amazon is viewed now. The supermarket chain has “a scale of economic power we haven’t encountered before”, warned “Th...

2017-12-07T15:57:42.000000000+00:00
Four-sided bandit
A DECADE ago the idea of paying real money for virtual items was strange and exotic. These days many video-game publishers build their business models around it. Some of the world’s biggest games, such as “League of Legends”, cost nothing to buy. Instead they rely for their rev...

2017-12-07T15:57:42.000000000+00:00
Data-mine ore
FOR millennia, man has broken rocks. Whether with pickaxe or dynamite, their own or animal muscle, in a digger or a diesel truck, thick-necked miners have been at the centre of an industry that supplies the raw materials for almost all industrial activity. Making mining more profit...

2017-12-07T15:57:37.000000000+00:00
COMMANDING the plot lines of Hollywood films, covers of magazines and reams of newsprint, the contest between artificial intelligence (AI) and mankind draws much attention. Doomsayers warn that AI could eradicate jobs, break laws and start wars. But such predictions concern the distant future. Th...

2017-12-07T15:57:37.000000000+00:00
“WE’RE bringing health care to where people live and work.” So declared Larry Merlo, chief executive officer of CVS Health, an American retail-pharmacy giant, on December 3rd, announcing a $69bn deal to buy Aetna, a health insurer. The deal is worth some $77bn after CVS’s assumption of Aetna’s de...

2017-11-30T15:56:11.000000000+00:00
GREAT expectations attended digital journalism outfits. Firms such as BuzzFeed and Mashable were the hip kids destined to conquer the internet with their younger, advertiser-friendly audience, smart manipulation of social media and affinity for technology. They seemed able to generate massive web...

2017-11-30T15:56:11.000000000+00:00
MUSIC lovers do not typically go to the opera to buy a speaker. But at the Palais Garnier in Paris they now can: Devialet, a local maker of high-end speakers, on November 29th opened a store in the 19th-century music venue to sell its most sophisticated product, called Phantom. Looking like a din...

2017-11-30T15:56:08.000000000+00:00
Carroticide
THE “kapsalon” is a healthy mix of chips, melted Gouda cheese, shawarma, lettuce and garlic sauce and is a tried and tested hangover cure in the Netherlands. So naturally, a butcher’s shop on the Spui, in The Hague, put it on its takeaway menu, alongside burgers and sausage rolls. As...

2017-11-30T15:56:07.000000000+00:00
WeChat, we read
WHENEVER Xu Jie goes to the cinema to watch mystery and detective films, she leaves disappointed: to help stamp out superstition, China’s censors excise ghosts and zombies from the screens. So for her fill of phantoms, she turns to the flourishing online-literature scene. There, ...

2017-12-14T01:50:49.000000000+00:00
Six months after flames enveloped a high-rise in London and prompted concerns about the safety of other buildings worldwide, a U.S.-based fire prevention group has developed a tool aimed at making buildings safer.

2017-12-14T00:31:03.000000000+00:00
Lawmakers from hard-hit states such as Florida are demanding tens of billions of dollars of hurricane relief and rebuilding funds as part of another temporary Washington spending bill to keep the government from shutting down over Christmas.

2017-12-14T00:30:00.000000000+00:00
Three companies that do very different things have two things in common: We think investors who own them will do very well over the next decade and enjoy a nice dividend along the way.

2017-12-13T17:02:56.000000000-05:00
The major U.S. stock indexes finished mostly higher Wednesday, with small companies notching big gains as lawmakers in the House and Senate reached a deal on a sweeping tax reform package

2017-12-13T17:02:56.000000000-05:00
The major U.S. stock indexes finished mostly higher Wednesday, with small companies notching big gains as lawmakers in the House and Senate reached a deal on a sweeping tax reform package

2017-12-13T15:51:53.000000000-05:00
Samsung is known for making some good televisions, but more than that they make good LOOKING televisions. How does the MU8000 and MU8500 stack up against the rest? Check out the video to find out.

Reuters - Global Markets

2017-12-13T20:24:49.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's expected deal with Twenty-First Century Fox Inc would give the world's best-known entertainment company new advantages in India, such as cricket rights and local-language TV shows for the fast-growing media market.

2017-12-13T19:38:26.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans reached a deal on final tax legislation on Wednesday, clearing the way for final votes next week on a package that would slash the U.S. corporate tax rate to 21 percent and cut taxes for wealthy Americans.

2017-12-13T19:07:34.000000000-05:00
LONDON (Reuters) - It is shaping up to be a bumper year for drug approvals, with U.S. officials clearing twice as many novel medicines as in 2016, yet returns on research investment at leading pharmaceutical companies are down.

2017-12-13T18:57:05.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional Republicans reached a deal on final tax legislation on Wednesday, clearing the way for final votes next week on a package that would slash the U.S. corporate tax rate to 21 percent and cut taxes for wealthy Americans.

2017-12-13T18:51:50.000000000-05:00
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday but left its rate outlook for the coming years unchanged even as policymakers projected a short-term jump in U.S. economic growth from the Trump administration's proposed tax cuts.

2017-12-13T18:18:56.000000000-05:00
(Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's deal to buy film, television and international businesses from Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox Inc will value the latter at over $40 per share, or $75 billion, a person familiar with the matter said.

2017-12-13T17:26:47.000000000-05:00
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's decision to make it harder for Boeing Co to win a major jet order hands rival plane maker Lockheed Martin Corp an advantage in capturing the contract, defense experts said on Wednesday.

2017-12-14T03:45:00.000000000+00:00
The anti-Trump text messages between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page that led to Strzok’s removal from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe have been obtained by Fox News.

2017-12-14T02:15:00.000000000+00:00
Donald Trump Jr. spoke to the Senate intelligence committee for nine hours Wednesday, concluding his third interview on Capitol Hill as part of probes into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

2017-12-14T01:49:59.000000000+00:00
A white Louisiana man accused of shooting two black men to death and of firing into the home of a black family in three separate incidents in September has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

2017-12-14T01:45:00.000000000+00:00
Allegations of sexual misconduct against television host Tavis Smiley surfaced Wednesday and PBS has since “suspended distribution” of his self-titled talk show, Variety reported.